Tehran not concerned within the assault on creator Salman Rushdie, says Iran govt | World News

An Iranian authorities official denied on Monday that Tehran was concerned within the assault on creator Salman Rushdie, in remarks that have been the nation's first public feedback on the assault.

The feedback by Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran's International Ministry, come over two days after the assault on Rushdie in New York.

Nonetheless, Iran has denied finishing up different operations overseas focusing on dissidents within the years for the reason that nation's 1979 Islamic Revolution, regardless of prosecutors and Western governments attributing such assaults again to Tehran.

“We, within the incident of the assault on Salman Rushdie within the U.S., don't think about that anybody deserves blame and accusations besides him and his supporters,” Kanaani stated. “No person has proper to accuse Iran on this regard.”

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Rushdie, 75, was stabbed Friday whereas attending an occasion in western New York. He suffered a broken liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye fixed, his agent stated. He was more likely to lose the injured eye.

His assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, has pleaded not responsible to fees stemming from the assault via his lawyer.

The award-winning creator for greater than 30 years has confronted demise threats for “The Satanic Verses.” Iran's late Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, demanding his demise. An Iranian basis had put up a bounty of over $3 million for the creator.

Kanaani added that Iran didn't "have some other info greater than what the American media has reported.”

The West “condemning the actions of the attacker and in return glorifying the actions of the insulter to Islamic beliefs is a contradictory angle,” Kanaani stated.